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I Will Not Do This Without You
“I will not do this without you. Not now. I’m too far gone down the road to turn back now.”
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Love That Is of God…
Love that is of God is sufficiency and transforms into abundance when shared with another.
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Letting Go
Dear Black Womyn holding the world together, holding the beams up, holding the flood waters back, holding, holding, holding: Let it go. It may all come crashing down. And maybe it should. It will be hard and painful and devastating. And maybe it should be. Folks gon’ be mad. Maybe that’s alright. It may break…
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Don’t Blame God for This
As millions of people from all walks of life were taking to the streets in protest after police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds on May 25, 2020, I tried my best to avoid engaging in conversations where people were trying to arrest something…
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Not in My Control and Not God’s Will
Recently my daughter Rocky wrote a piece for her Patreon that helped me to name something that was firing up my anxiety. She wrote, “I think one of the reasons that this year was so frustrating was because we all felt so terribly out of control. It largely felt as if we were all at…
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Just Out Here Watching Stars…
Stay far away from the leaders who can’t uncenter themselves long enough to attend to the extraordinary, whether it be the extraordinary deaths in the land or the extraordinary star in the sky.
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A Cradle in Bethlehem
O God, can you spare an angel to watch over the lineage of daughters of the mothers whose laps were stolen by slavery? Don’t turn away from a new generation of women whose laps are being stolen by poverty and exhaustion and economic oppression. God, toll the bell on laps put to work to nurture…
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The One Sleeping on Mary’s Lap
“Lord, help us to find our way to the baby sleeping on Mary’s lap.”
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“Shepherds in the Fields…”
On this first day of Christmas, I am thinking about shepherds. In the Gospel of Luke, these unnamed shepherds are described as the first to hear the good news. (Luke 2: 8-20) “In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then the angel of the Lord…
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A Prayer for Persistence
I am a daughter of Fisk University. #FiskForever for sure. But that’s not the reason why I return over and over again to a little book entitled “Prayers for a Dark People.” A collection of prayers from the heart of W. E. B. DuBois, they were written for the children and young people enrolled in…
A Voice In Ramah
Another world is possible…
A Voice In Ramah 